The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-18
THE WEST.

THE Central Traffic Association has re-
solved not to contest the Interstate Com
merce act.
Born houses of the Nevada Legislature
have adopted resolutions DISTINGUISHING
Mormons in Nevada.
A TELEGRAM from Francesville. Pulaski
County, Ind, reports that oil was struck at
the depth of 625 feet in paying quantities
The quality is excellent.
LOUIS KLIPP and Nicholas Mumbaugh,
boiler makers, were suffocated the other
day while repairing furnace boiler at
Girard, ..
THREE persons were killed recently in q
fire which broke out on the premises of
Jesse Arnot. Chestnut street, st. Louis.
NAVAJO Indians in New Mexico recently
resisted the attempt of officers to arrest a
horse-thief, killing three. Two Indians
were killed. Great excitement existed.
SEVERAL wild bulls broke loose in the
City of Mexico the other day and killed a
number of persons. The bulls were Of the
famous Atenco breed, and were destined to
be used in the coming bull fights.
THE Western Nail Association at its reg
ular monthly meeting at Cincinnati on the
9th voted unanimously that the price of
nails be advanced to e. 20 card, an advance
of ten cents.
THOUSANDS of cattle persisted in the re-
cent blizzard in Montana.
Cora LEE, accused of the murder of Sarah
Graham at Springfield, Mo-, has been re-
leased on 5000 bail
Much damage has been done in Illinois by
overhowing rivers and heavy rains. At
Sterling, Rock river was reported higher
than for thirty years.
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Iowa, a small farm house occupied by
man named Lucklum was entirely con-
sumed by fire recently and his aged father,
wife and son were burned to death. Two
neighboring women saw the flames and
tried to get into the house but the doors
were fastened. This, together with the
fact that gun and revolver were found
near the charred remains of the old man.
has given rise to suspicious of murder and
arson.
THE River Ralsln at Monroe, Mich, was
never SO high as on the 9th. With the
water came an ice gorge, which swept
away the Macomb street bridge. 1t was
an iron structure, valued at $4,000. Many
residences were flooded and several people
were rescued with difficulty.
A CRANK was arrested in the Grand
Opera House, San Francisco. during the
Patti performance. An improvised bomb
had exploded in his hands, severely injur-
ing him. 1t was reported that he had in
tended to assassinate the singer with it and
burn down the house. Much alarm was
caused, a panic being narrowly prevented.
THE Missouri Legislature has shelved
the question Of submission.
THE Dakota Council defeated by an en-
phatic majority the bill giving Incorporated
cities the exclusive control of the liquor
traffic within their limits. The same body
passed local option bill, 80 to /. The
friends of the bill say IFS passage in the
House is assured.
The Peoria Ill.) grand jury has returned
twenty indictmtnts against HOke, the en-
bezzler.
HENRY SCHWARTZ, who is now in Jail at
Morris. ILL.,, suspected Of being implicated
in the Rock Island express robbery, has. it
is said, made a confession to his wife. The
confession would show that Schwartz did
not murder the express messenger, al
though he was concerned in the robbery.
GEORGE W. VOICE, an East st. Louis po-
hceman, has been arrested on the charge
of having killed Ex-Msyor John b. Bow
man in that city November 20, 1855. He
was implicated by two young hoodlums.
A TERRIBLE wind storm prevailed in Ohio,
Pennsylvania and New York on the 18th.
Several churches and residences were de
molished. At Tyrone, Pa, four men were
killed by a falling tree.
GOVERNOR Ross, of New Mexico, has
signed the new cattle quarantine bill for
that Territory.
THE accident on the Cleveland & Pitts
burgh railroad, near Cleveland, O., on the
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life. The engine passed safely over the
bridge..which gave way, the cars that fell
through having only two persons on board,
who escaped without injury.
FLORA b., Joe Hooker and a three-year-old
flly. all speedy trotters, were burned to
death in a barn in Detroit, Mich, the other
night.
PLECRo-PNEUMoNIA has been discovered
in the large herd Of cattle owned by Judge
Foley on his farm west of Lincoln, Ill, and
State veterinary surgeon has pronounced
it of bad type. Several head will be killed
and the others strictly Quarantined.
THE SOUTH.
TALBOT, who recently stole Fanny Day.
exports diamonds, valued at $4,000, from
hotel in Memphis, Tenn, was captured in
Kansas City, Mo.
Aonii SohsiNto hiutlllCu ICSSullS
Asheville. n. c. They were reduced to
submission by bird shot.
THE wife of DR.. Ford, of New Orleans,
has sued for divorce on the ground that he
is a convicted felon. Ford killed his wife's
seducer and pleaded guilty to manslaughter
to save his wife being examined in court.
GENERAL
THE returns of the British Board of Trade
show that the imports for January COM
pared with the same month last year have
increased e, $780, 600; exports eGOO,OOO.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY has written a long
letter, bestowing high praise upon DIR. Jun
ker for the assiduity exhibited in his ex-
plorations, and giving In detail his own
reasons for preferring the Conr'o to the
Zanzibar route in his present exx edition to
relieve Emin Bey.
BEACH has accepted Hanlan's challenge
to row on the Nepean river, in Canada
The miners of Northumberland, Eng,
have voted s,25S to /, $50 to strike against
reduction of wages.
AT Stettin, Germany, recently several
socialists received bayonet wounds on being
dispersed by the military.
The Grand Vizier. NJ. Zankoff and NJ
Valcovitch, the Bulgarian agent had
a conference at Constantinople recently.
1t was agreed that the Bulgarian regency
should be reconstructed and the Zaukoff
party admitted.